Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨! I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!

The MAC lab at Drexel is looking for a new post-doc to work on NIH-funded projects investigating the intersection of prior knowledge and long-term memory consolidation. Please pass along to any interested lab members! careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Our lab auditoryaging.com at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest in Toronto is recruiting a graduate student for Fall 2026. We work on cognition, hearing, hearing loss, and social consequences of hearing loss. Get in-touch (email). For UofT admission details www.sgs.utoronto.ca/programs/psy...

New preprint! My stellar undergrad, June Kim, & @charan-neuro.bsky.social find that intersubject pattern similarity at encoding (especially in posteromedial cortex) relates to shared/differing content between Ss at recall (measured using topic modeling) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How might stories shed light on brain function? Check out this opinion piece by @alexbarnett.bsky.social and I about the DMN and "situation models" -- our understanding of the current "state of affairs" in a story (or even experience). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/ 🚨 Preprint alert! How does the brain make sense of continuous experience? We find that continuous experiences can be compressed using a subset of key moments that dominate comprehension and recall. 👉 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.30.673233

Need to control visual similarity in your experiments? A new open database by Robbins and colleagues @michaelhout.bsky.social @haywardgodwin.bsky.social, published in #psynomBRM, maps similarity among 1,200 objects in 20 categories using MDS—validated & ready to use.

Quantifying memory recall is hard! Luckily, natural language processing (incl. #LLMs) offers new, automated, and scalable ways to do that! Great new review by Fenerci & @signysheldon.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory! We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵1/9

No one ever steps in the same movie twice. Anticipatory gaze 👁️ indicate episodic memory seconds before an event occurs. 🧠🐾 Very robust effects across both natural and crafted movies, and of course, after sleep! 😴. Out today in Communication Psychology: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Check it out!

New CNeuroMod-THINGS open-access fMRI dataset: 4 participants · ~4 000 images (720 categories) each shown 3× (12k trials per subject)· individual functional localizers & NSD-inspired QC . Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.09024 Congrats Marie St-Laurent and @martinhebart.bsky.social !!

📢 job opening: software developer at Mila Quebec AI Institute & McGill As of now, my team is looking to hire a new technical staff member with abackground in a STEM area for running and curating existing AI analysis pipelines, as well as designing GUIs around them. Please DM or email me, with CV

My first, first author paper, comparing the properties of memory-augmented large language models and human episodic memory, out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! authors.elsevier.com/a/1lV174sIRv... Here’s a quick 🧵(1/n)

Happy to share our study showing a new role for ventromedial PFC in prospection. tinyurl.com/e7kudkby #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

Nature Communications A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories! rdcu.be/eui9l

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!! The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children. Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads. Start: Fall 2025 or later. Details: [email protected] RTs appreciated 💫

Massive, Herculanean work by @laurenahart.bsky.social and Garance Meyer to compile and integrate findings from DBS for epilepsy (20 targets!) including meta-analytical evidence for optimal stimulation sites for the two main targets (ANT & CM). Preprint out now 👇👇

New preprint & OA dataset from the lab 🥳 An open dataset of cerebral tau deposition in young healthy adults based on [18F]MK6240 positron emission tomography by Jack Lam and a terrific team of colleagues at the Neuro, Douglas and UCL ▶️ pdf doi.org/10.1101/2025... ▶️ bids osf.io/znt9d

Who wants to be my new chair? mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

⭐ preprint ⭐ In-vivo evidence for increased tau deposition in temporal lobe epilepsy ➡️ Using [¹⁸F]MK-6240 PET, we show increased tau in young and middle aged TLE ➡️ Tau aggregation potential mechanism of disease progression & cognitive decline ➡️ pdf bit.ly/4mmlTYH by Raul Cruces & a super team

Preprint 🥳 "A unified imaging-histology framework for superficial white matter architecture studies in the human brain" 🧠 SMW key for brain structure-function links 🤔 understudied because of its complexity 💡 SMW mapping for histology & MRI 🌟 OA 📖 lnkd.in/ef8bGGrF by Youngeun Hwang et al

I’m thrilled to announce that I will start as a presidential assistant professor in Neuroscience at the City U of Hong Kong in Jan 2026! I have RA, PhD, and postdoc positions available! Come work with me on neural network models + experiments on human memory! RT appreciated! (1/5)

As a 50 yr old academic, I strongly encourage reading this article. “One of the senior women from my early days died young; two retired unusually early; one dropped out of academia; others moved to lesser institutions. A few hung on, ... “

✨ What makes the brain's functional organization different in each #TLE patient? 🧠 ✨ We used a large sample (298 healthy adults, 282 TLE, 45 disease controls) + normative modeling to capture individualized functional disruptions. 🔎 #epilepsy #neuroimaging #precisionmedicine doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧠 New preprint alert! @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social PhD student Salah Aziz and our fantastic team tracked hippocampal changes over time in >1,300 individuals using surface-based morphometry (SBM). Here's what we found—and why it matters for Alzheimer’s research 🧵 [1/]

🚨New Preprint Alert!🚨 We just dropped a new paper on medRxiv that uses machine learning to rethink how we diagnose cognitive decline — and the results are 🔥. Let’s talk about brain data, hidden clusters, and how we might catch dementia before it’s diagnosed. 🧵👇 📄 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

I have an opening for a graduate student at @carleton.ca (Carleton University) in the Department of Cognitive Science for fall 2025. Project is a multimodal MRI study examining how Hearing Loss affects cognition in older adults - contact me with a CV if you’re interested & have relevant expertise!

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Hey friends! Come say hi to folks from my lab and from @jzacks.bsky.social lab at #CNS2025. We have a bunch of in-progress stuff this time, including a “sketchpad series” by @raynatang.bsky.social. Also, Veronica and June (with @alexbarnett.bsky.social) were undergrads when they did their projects 🙂

Science Alert 🚨: Our paper is now out in @natureneuro.bsky.social - We show that the firing phase of neurons in human MTL doesn’t reflect the order of events, challenging a long-standing theory of human memory. nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01893-7

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Registration is open for #HBHLSymposium2025 🧠 Join us on May 6-7, 2025, in Montreal for two days of talks & networking. Keynotes by @drdamienfair.bsky.social, @lucinauddin.bsky.social & @amelieqv.bsky.social, panels (ft. @westernubrainscan.bsky.social) and more! Secure your spot: mcgill.ca/x/iwg

@diamondn.bsky.social et al. find that sleep enhances memory for the order of events from an art tour, but not the details of the events. The sleep-related advantage for sequences persists for over a year. @brianlevine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in automated scoring of speech recall across languages? Check out this new preprint. arxiv.org/abs/2503.01045 Possibly helping the hearing sciences to use more naturalistic speech materials to assess comprehension.

Will you be the Cognitive Neuroscience meeting in Boston on March 29 from 12-1pm? If so, see @paulacroxson.bsky.social @ayannakim.bsky.social & I for a FREE science communication workshop. Learn about explaining the mind for a broad audience. Afterward, I'll be signing copies of "Why We Remember"!

🚨 🧠 We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought. We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.

I am incredibly proud to share my first, first-author paper as a postdoc with @benhayden.bsky.social . How does the human hippocampus, known for encoding concepts, represent the meanings of words while listening to narrative speech? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New Preprint 🚨 This research with @bjherrmann.bsky.social, @alexbarnett.bsky.social, and @barense.bsky.social extends previous work exploring how LLMs can simulate human event segmentation, with applications for automated recall assessments. arxiv.org/abs/2502.13349

Still lots of opportunities to get involved organizing for the #StandUpForScience2025 rally across the US on March 7. 📣 Check out @standupforscience.bsky.social for info. Lots to do, colleagues! 👏 Let’s not sit by and watch science be destroyed. There’s always a need for anything you can do. 🔬🩺🧠

Happening tomorrow! Don’t miss it 👀

Excited to share our preprint "Fast-timescale hippocampal processes bridge between slowly unfurling neocortical states during memory search" 🧠✨ We leverage iEEG to elucidate the fast neural mechanisms by which long multimodal narratives are unfurled in continuous memory-search tinyurl.com/wjkr3dvf

Our language neuroscience lab (evlab.mit.edu) is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3r346k66 We'll start reviewing apps in early Mar. (Unfortunately, MIT does not sponsor visas for these positions, but OPT works.)

Mark your calendars 📅 ✍️ for NEW's next webinar! 🕙 Feb 20th, 2025, 10AM-11:30AM EST 🌟 Three speakers sharing their recent work on neuroimaging of epilepsy 🤝 Panel and audience discussion 💻 Happening here: zoom.us/j/95048511341 🗣️ Please spread the word and share!

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! ✨ They’ll never be able to take away the impact and contributions of Black scientists, no matter how hard they try. So each week this month, I’ll be highlighting a few #BlackInNeuro scientists for you to learn about, celebrate their work, & follow 👩🏾‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬

Out in @natureneuro.bsky.social today 🥂 Cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow of the human default mode network Combining 3D histology, 7T MRI, and connectomics to explore DMN structure-function associations Led by Casey Paquola, @themindwanders.bsky.social & a terrific team of colleagues 🙏